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verb (used with object)
1.
to turn upside down.
2.
to reverse in position, order, direction, or relationship.
3.
to turn or change to the opposite or contrary, as in nature, bearing, or effect: to invert a process.
4.
to turn inward or back upon itself.
5.
EXPANDto turn inside out.
6.
Chemistry. to subject to inversion.
7.
Music. to subject to musical inversion.
8.
COLLAPSEPhonetics. to articulate as a retroflex vowel.
verb (used without object)
9.
Chemistry. to become inverted.
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Inverted
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
adjective
10.
Chemistry. subjected to inversion.
noun
11.
a person or thing that is inverted.
12.
a homosexual.
13.
(in plumbing) that portion of the interior of a drain or sewer pipe where the liquid is deepest.
14.
an inverted arch or vault.
15.
Philately. a two-colored postage stamp with all or part of the central design printed upside down in relation to the inscription.
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Example Sentences
- She uses an inverted word order to signal the age of the tale.
- To provide the extra humidity this orchid likes, place the pot on an inverted saucer in a pan filled with pebbles and water.
- Averse to custom and precedent, as usual, she is not to crown her house of laws with the indispensable inverted cup.
WordNet
| inverted | |
adjective | |
| 1. | being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake" |
| 2. | (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk [syn: anatropous] [ant: amphitropous] |
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